Surprisingly good after reading about all these high temps that others have had with their i7's. High 30's to low 40's idle and about 74c is the highest I've seen while stability testing at 4.410ghz with ambient at about 70f/22c.

Not bad at all

Well... I've about had it with this rig. No matter what I do it won't get anywhere near 4ghz. I'm at a total loss with this thing LOL!

Send it my way and I'll whoop it for ya. I just need the CPU, CPU Cooler and mobo. :D

Jump on the bandwagon Jeff!! Order that shiny new i7!

Hang in there Jeff, we've all been there. You just need a bit of cooling to coax the best from it.

LOL.... I'm gonna play with it a little while longer, but it would be a lot more fun to take a blow torch to it.

I just might do that in the near future!

Should have been able to get more out of it with the WC'ing stuff I just got.... temps went down far enough but still nothing. I'm starting to think it's the board cause I know the chip will do much more and has on different boards.

I can still play with Vista and the other 4870 x2 on it though. :D

All it needs is some TLC instead of force feeding Jeff. nVidia board w/ 775 socket= cheap hooker that you tell to take it and like it, AM3 = fussy bitch that hasn't learned just how much she likes it...yet. i7 = fussy virgin that fears the tube steak and must be convinced that it's ok first. All things considered I think the LGA775 socket was by far the easiest ever to overclock.

Yeah.... I'm still not against getting a E8500 and a board and playing with that also.

It's too late Jeff. You have been corrupted. Don't fight it. The only solution now is to keep buying hardware. Without it, you will never be happy. Cooling, well you are turning quick. Soon you will be thinking about a chiller. Then you may or may not decide to skip that step. Why? Because you realize there is an evolution to the overclocker with the end result always being colder temps. Next step is considering a phase changer, but no. That isn't cold enough for Jeff. He wants one of those crazy looking liquid nitrogen evaporators. Yeah, that should do it.

There buddy, I just layed out your future. The path you take is your choice, but you will end up in the same place ;)